A Cambridge University low energy lighting technology is to be commercialised by a new division of Plessey in the UK for use in commercial and residential property.

The new Cambridgeshire Provident Society is accepting applications for investment in its new ‘Sunshine Shares’ through Cambridge entrepreneur Peter Dawe’s www.notabank.co.uk venture.

A pioneering Cambridge CleanTech company is thriving as a result of support from global energy firm BP.

The new star in the Cambridge CleanTech firmament – Eight19 – is to raise a further £5 million this summer, Business Weekly can reveal.

John Best, the founder and face of EEEGR (East of England Energy Group) is to stand down as chief executive after 11 years to take on a new role.

Dr Aled Jones, director of the Global Sustainability Institute at Cambridge-based Anglia Ruskin University, is among signatories to a letter to Bank of England Governor, Sir Mervyn King, today warning of “systemic risk” to the UK economy from environmentally unsustainable investments.

With 30 per cent of all the UK’s energy consumed in homes, energy shortages and rolling blackouts will become a real possibility in as little as five years’ time, a sustainable technologies expert will warn tomorrow.

Cambridge based solar pioneer, Eight19, has commissioned a new development and manfacturing facility to produce next generation solar solutions.

Environmental expert and Nobel Peace Prizewinner Dr David Viner is in Cambridge UK next week telling allcomers: “I don’t believe in climate change.”

Global sustainability champion Dr Aled Jones is guest speaker at the Business Weekly Awards presentation dinner in Cambridge on March 20.

Cambridge UK based Telgenco has launched a new DC generator targeted specifically for renewable energy deployments and remote telecoms sites.

Eight19 Ltd, the Cambridge UK developer of the IndiGo pay-as-you-go solar power system and SunnyMoney, a leading social enterprise distributing solar lamps in East Africa owned by SolarAid, have launched the ‘Kickstart Sustainable Energy Fund.

Enval, the Cambridge UK provider of recycling and environmental technology solutions, has attracted fresh backing for the commercialisation of its technology for the recycling of plastic and aluminium laminate packaging.

Norwich-based technology solutions provider Proteo has developed a state-of-the-art Apple iPad App to transform Anglian Home Improvements’ sales process for solar panel installations.

Cambridge companies are being plugged into potentially lucrative opportunities in the CleanTech sector in India.

Windcrop Ltd gathered pace at gale force speed throughout 2011 and ended the year by celebrating its 100th turbine installation and having more than tripled its workforce with the creation of 25 new jobs at an expanded headquarters in Norfolk.